We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

There is no story that is not true.

I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Art should be on the side of humanity.